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Bet he's told you he has working indicators as well coz we all know BMW's have them deactivated at the factory gates.
Could he have chipoed past the limiter?
Anyway, I was told it is possible to wring 85mph out of an FS1E...
Is his name surfmatt?
Who parked across the dropped kerb, then?
*continues sanctimonious content*
Would a [i]standard[/i] 325d do a [i]genuine[/i] 160mph. Er No.
Could you ever see 160mph [i]indicated[/i], er possibly, given a long enough run up, a following wind and a downhill road.......
My 335d will just about hit the 155 limiter given enough space, but it takes ages to get there, and even in Germany on derestricted autobahns, you generally never have enough space to do so these days (unless you go out at 2AM, and don't mind passing trucks with a 100mph differential speed...........)
Remember the power required to cancel aerodynamic drag increases as the cube of velocity, so there is a BIG power requirement difference between doing say 150mph and 160mph.
I had a 2005 535D Tourer that was remapped and derestricted and that would see over 165 on the Autobahn on the Sat Nav rather than the speedo.
Would pull like a bloody train as well.
I distinctly remember an older M5 slamming into its limiter at 155mph as my mates R32 skyline drove along side it on the M6 many years ago, that felt pretty fast to be sure but I'm not sure a 325d would do it unless it was heavily remapped and the road was loooooooong
100mph out of a 950 Fiesta? Did you throw it out of a plane? 😀
I inherited my dad's MK1 950 Pop.
I just couldn't drive it over 80- the unholy racket made me feel sorry for it.
And once you'd driven anything else, the brakes were terrifying.
Still miss it.
I've only owned three cars that could do over 100, and two of those were so shagged out they'd have shat themselves or wobbled into the Armco long before that.